Well THAT didn't last long
Tonight during Dax's bath he and I struck up a conversation about Christmas. He was playing with a couple of new toys that Santa brought him so I asked, "Santa is pretty cool, huh?" His response totally took me by surprise because I was not expecting my three-year-old who had JUST THIS YEAR been introduced to the idea of Santa to tell me that he was pretend.
That's right. Dax informed me that Santa? He's pretend. We pretended that Santa came to our house and brought presents. Wha????
When I asked him who told him that he had no answer. I asked him if one of his friends at school had said something and he said, "No. The schoolers think he's real. Ty Ty said Santa is real."
"And what did you tell Ty Ty?"
"I told him Santa is just pretend."
Oh, that's just peachy. You always hear about the kid who ruins Santa for all the others by telling them he's not real. I didn't think it would happen in the preschool set and I certainly didn't think it would be MY kid doing it.
And so I feel the need to proclaim here, in this public forum, that it was NOT US who told him Santa was pretend.
I'm wondering if this will pass. I mean, when next Christmas rolls around will he simply scoff at the man in red or will he believe?
If he remains a skeptic then these are the Christmas cards all his little friends will be getting.